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Hosted Projects - Standalone => The Babylon Project => Topic started by: Megadoomer on August 31, 2005, 01:08:48 pm

Title: Need help making smaller cruisers behave realistically
Post by: Megadoomer on August 31, 2005, 01:08:48 pm

I'm having difficulties getting the Drazi Firehawks to act believeably in combat. They're only bein attacked by enemy fighters, but I want to find some sensible way to make them respond to the fighters attacking by say turning to meet them so they actually use their weapons and fire upon them.

I don't want to have to go to the effort of planning out all the individual ship movements, but I'm not sure what else I can do.

I'm about to try using the set-ship-facing sexp to point the ships towards hostile vessels, but if it works they only be rotating not moving.

So has anyone found better ways to do it? Would it better to make them behave like the whitestars do (which isn't ideal, but is better than the way the Drazi cruisers behave).

Title: Need help making smaller cruisers behave realistically
Post by: Prophet on August 31, 2005, 01:29:49 pm

Still waiting for the SCP to finish the gunship AI... Then Sunhawk, WS and Vree ships will behave like they are supposed to be.

Title: Need help making smaller cruisers behave realistically
Post by: karajorma on August 31, 2005, 01:52:26 pm

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Originally posted by Prophet Still waiting for the SCP to start the gunship AI... Then Sunhawk, WS and Vree ships will behave like they are supposed to be.

Fixed it for you :D

Title: Need help making smaller cruisers behave realistically
Post by: Megadoomer on August 31, 2005, 02:58:37 pm

When, where and how can I get it?

Title: Need help making smaller cruisers behave realistically
Post by: karajorma on August 31, 2005, 05:05:58 pm

Learn to program, become a genius at AI programing, lose all your hair and sanity looking at the AI code.

That seems to be the quickest way at the moment.

Title: Need help making smaller cruisers behave realistically
Post by: Trivial Psychic on August 31, 2005, 05:17:48 pm

I once suggested having "Target by Big" and "Target by Big No Bomb" flags that would cause a ship with bomber and fighter AI to be targetted by big weapons like cap-ships, but still behave like fighter and bomber craft.  The second of the 2 would be useful to prevent bombs from being launched at things like a whitestar, which would be too fast to be hit by one.